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Lady Jane Grey was a remarkable character from the history of our country. She was known as the ‘Nine Day Queen of England’ and she died at the age of 16. She was highly educated, very intelligent and was a descendent Henry VII the first monarch of the House of Tudor that ruled through most of the sixteenth century. Jane was born in 1537 and died in 1554. She had a personal tutor and was able to speak a number of languages and could converse in Greek and even correspond with intellectuals in that language.
She studied not only languages but also the Word of God, the Bible and came to a settled conviction which led her to faith in Christ. She believed the Gospel and knew that the only way to Heaven was through faith alone in Christ alone. She grew up with two sisters, one named Katherine who was very beautiful but not an intellectual like Jane, and Mary who had some kind of physical deformity. Her parents were deeply ambitious and carried the hope that Jane would one day inherit the throne and become Queen of England.
